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Ministry of Defence
Media Reports Maligning GoI over NFFU/NFU to Armed Forces
Certain section of media is attempting to generate motivated controversy on the NFFU/NFU for Armed Forces while the case is still subjudice in the Apex Court. The targeting of Govt officials ascribing false statements to them with an intent to pressurise them is highly condemnable. In case of complicated policies with long term and wider consequences, there may be times when agreement is not easy to build not only between two parties but also within a party, such cases are debated for merit in judicial Courts as per the law of the land. This process must not be attempted to be highjacked by publically targeting the reputation of individuals discharging their duties as the authorised representatives of one side, GoI in this case. In the instant case, the recourse to judicial review was taken as per the existing policies and at the decision of the GoI. Certain facts have been twisted and misrepresented in media with the purpose of misleading uniformed community and the general public. One, the Central Pay Commission has been incorrectly quoted to have recommended NFFU/ NFU for the Armed Forces. Two, there has been no attempt to malign the uniformed community or quote them as staying in 'palatial houses' as the hardships faced by military fraternity are well known and deeply respected by everyone including those in the Govt. The counsel of GoI has only read out the recommendations of the 7th CPC as the argument of the case in the Apex Court. Three, the originators of smearing campaign have not spared even a uniformed veteran representing GoI in judicial matters but who has no connection with the instant case. Four, the delay is not at the behest of the Govt but because of the Apex Court asking the Govt to serve the notices to remaining petitioners so that they can also be heard.
MoD requests all to allow the legal procedure in the Apex Court to complete. It is reiterated that Govt stands by its uniformed fraternity and is custodian of its high morale and operational effectiveness.
PIB Headquarters
ANGANWADI WORKERS TO RECEIVE COMPLAINTS AGAINST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
In Tamil Nadu anganwadi workers are being asked to act as coordinators to receive complaints against domestic violence during lockdown. Covid-19 pandemic lockdown has led to fear of increased domestic violence against women. The socio economical reasons behind the cruelty cannot be justified. Tamil Nadu has taken steps to utilise the services of anganwadi workers to receive complaints against domestic violence. In villages anganwadi workers interact with women in the village and they are easily accessible to them. Women who are affected by domestic violence during Covid-19 lockdown can lodge their complaints to anganwadi workers by getting their numbers from www.icds.tn.nic.in website. Karur Collector Shri Anbazhagan said that women can lodge complaints against domestic violence in the following emergency numbers 181, 1091, 122 also. Ariyalur Collector Smt Rathna has urged public and the affected to lodge complaints against domestic violence to Anganwadi workers over phone.
Tiruchirapalli Social Welfare department is taking action to prevent child marriages even during lock down. One Stop centres under Ministry of Women and Child Development also provide assistance to women affected by violence. They provide medical assistance, police assistance, psycho social counselling and legal help shelters. Karur Krishnarayapuram Child development Project officer Smt.V. Kuralselvi said that as per orders from Collector, Anganwadi workers are receiving complaints on domestic violence over phone and forwarding to family counselling centre.
Tiruchirapalli range Police had taken effective steps to prevent violence against women especially during lockdown period. The Police launched a massive initiative to contact more than 13,000 victims of domestic violence in the past four years in Trichy, Pudukottai, Karur, Ariyalur and Perambalur districts under Trichy range. During the initial period of lockdown, inspectors of 15 All women police stations contacted these victims over phone and ensured that they are safe and there is no recurrence of violence.
Tiruchi Range DIG Shri.V Balakrishnan has said that public grievances from Tiruchirapalli, Pudukottai, Karur, Ariyalur and Perambalur will be heard through Google Meet app on Mondays and Fridays from 12 noon to 1 PM. Public who wants to make complaint must first contact DIG office on 0431-2333909 and register their name and address.
Awareness about the government's various measures is the need of the hour to prevent domestic violence against women and children and it is everyone's responsibility to make our society free from this deplorable evil.
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Ministry of Personnel, Public Grievances & Pensions
NDMA reviews preparedness of States to counter heat wave and lightning
The National Disaster Management Authority  conducted a meeting with 17 heat wave-prone States here today to review their preparedness and mitigation measures. In view of the recent incidents of thunderstorm and lightning, preparedness measures relating to these hazards were also assessed.
In the meeting conducted through video conference, Shri R. K. Jain, Member, NDMA, requested the States to run extensive public awareness campaigns in local languages to educate people about the simple ways of mitigating the impact of heat waves and lightning.
He also asked the States to work on developing thresholds at local levels and ensure wider dissemination of early warnings.
The India Meteorological Department  informed that besides the regular five-day forecasts, it now comes out with a special heat bulletins at 0730 hrs to help people plan their day accordingly.
A detailed review of the preparedness of the States in terms of having Heat Action Plans up to the district level, providing shelters, drinking water, rescheduling work timings to avoid peak heat impact for labourers, medical treatment, etc. was carried out.
NDMA underlined the importance of training all stakeholders to build local capacities and ensure better response in an emergency. The Authority also asked the States to share a report on the activities carried out by them so that best practices followed by one State can be suitably adapted by others.
Besides, NDMA has been running an all-out awareness campaign on social media on the do’s and don’ts of heat wave, thunderstorms and lightning. NDMA's “Beat The Heat India” campaign is being widely used and publicised by various other stakeholders.
Ministry of Science & Technology
India Destined to be Global Scientific Leader, Says Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh
Minister Compliments Young Scientists for Shouldering the Challenge of COVID-19
Union Minister of State  Science & Technology; Minister of State  Earth Sciences; MoS PMO, Personnel, Public Grievances, Pensions, Atomic Energy and Space, Dr Jitendra Singh said today that India is destined to be Global Scientific Leader and the quality of our scientific human resource is far superior to most other developed countries of the world.
The Minister was addressing the 12th Foundation Day function of "Translational Health Science and Technology Institute", a premier institute in NCR Biotech Science Cluster, Faridabad today.
On the occasion, the Minister also inaugurated a series of prestigious new scientific facilities including India's first-ever FERRET facility for Vaccine research and development, which is going to attract worldwide attention, particularly in the wake of the current COVID pandemic. He complimented the young scientists of the country for shouldering the challenge thrown up by the pandemic and overnight reorienting themselves for this.
Referring to Prime Minister Narendra Modi's natural scientific temper and his personal indulgence in promoting every scientific pursuit, Dr Jitendra Singh said, the present government has given special fillip to science and technology. He said, India's scientific prowess is going to have a major role in the making of “Atma Nirbhar Bharat” .
The Minister complimented the path-breaking achievements of the Institute and said that it has performed remarkably well in the face of the pandemic. However, Dr Jitendra Singh cautioned that the era of working in silos is over. Stating that in space technology India is at present a frontline nation and the fact that even NASA procures data obtained by ISRO speaks volumes about our scientific progress.
In her keynote address Secretary, Department of Biotechnology Dr. Renu Swarup mentioned about the state-of-the-art research and development facility available at Thsti. Touching upon the diagnostic & drug development facility, anti-virus screening programmes and other ongoing research efforts of Thsti, she said the institute enjoys national importance.
Addressing the gathering, Executive Director, THSTI Dr. Pramod Garg said that within a short span of 12 years the Institute has secured note-worthy achievement in different sectors. Mainly four main health research programmes are the focus area of the Institute, he added.
Earlier, Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh also inaugurated the newly built M K Bhan Auditorium in the premises. Besides this, the Minister also inaugurated Immunology Core Lab, BSL-3 Lab, Office of Connectivity, Ferret Facility, Bio Repository and Small Animal Centre at the cluster. Dr Jitendra Singh also gave away awards to outstanding young scientists in different categories.
Union Minister Dr Jitendra Singh speaking on the occasion of 12th Foundation Day of "Translational Health Science and Technology Institute"  in NCR Biotech Science Cluster at Faridabad, on Thursday.
Ministry of Information & Broadcasting
Film history is a central part of film education: FTII Professor Pankaj Saxena at IFFI 51 Masterclass
Panaji, January 22, 2021
“The past often shapes the present. Film history is a central part of film education. It’s important to understand those who pioneered cinema. To understand the creation, one has to understand the creator.” This was stated by filmmaker, media consultant, cinema academic and writer Prof. Pankaj Saxena, at an IFFI 51 virtual Masterclass on ‘The Beginning of Cinema’, held during the ongoing 51st International Film Festival of India.
Prof. Saxena gave an introduction to the history of cinema, through films which were made as early as the 19th century. He shared some old black-and-white films belonging to the initial era of film-making. These included films made by French filmmaker Alice Guy Blaché, who moved into filmmaking from her erstwhile career as a steno typist. “People were delighted to see moving images in 1890. Alice made close to a thousand films, including the 1896 silent film, The Fairy of the Cabbages / La Fée aux Choux.”
He also gave the example of French magician George Méliès, known for his 1902 adventure film A Trip to the Moon. The professor said that Méliès found the same quality of magic in cinema and became a filmmaker.
Another example he gave is that of Edwin Porter, who was working with Thomas Edison as a projectionist, later becoming an American film pioneer, producer, director, studio manager and cinematographer. Prof. Saxena said that many American filmmakers have been inspired by him in the past and present. His 1903 silent film The Great Train Robbery was also showcased during the masterclass.
About Prof. Pankaj Saxena
Pankaj Saxena  is Professor of Screen Studies and Research at FTII. He is a film maker.
A Graduate in Film Editing and Post Graduate in Film Direction, Prof. Saxena has written, edited, directed and produced over a hundred documentaries, short fiction films, television programs, public service advertisements and news stories.
In a professional career spanning over three decades, he has held senior management positions including those of Vice President at Discovery Asia Incorporated and Head of Programming at BBC Worldwide.
Over the last three years, he has conducted Film Appreciation Courses for FTII’s SKIFT initiative in more than 25 cities across various parts of India.
Ministry of Communications
Promoting Innovation and Harnessing the Potential of IoT imperative for India: Aruna Sundararajan
The need of promoting innovation and harnessing the potential of Internet of Things  is imperative for solving practical problems in India, said Telecom Secretary Aruna Sundararajan. All initiatives in IoT should translate into business models which can be replicated across sectors, she added.
Ms Sundararajan was inaugurating a seminar on IoT organised by Deprtment of Telecommunications in collaboration with GSMA, New Delhi.
Ms Sundararajan also underlined the need to work across silos in technology, policy, regulation, licenses, and use cases. There should be a drive to spread awareness and initiate capacity building across several key ministries like health, agriculture, transport, urban development and energy as use cases will be initiated from these ministries.
The seminar is the first among series of capacity building programmes planned with the support of GSMA as per the bilateral agreement between DoT and GSMA during Mobile World Congress 2018 at Barcelona. Technology considerations for IoT, including the spectrum allocation, business models for IoT, and policy considerations were discussed during the seminar.
IoT deployment has been included as one of the important focus technology area in the draft National Digital Communication Policy 2018 released recently. Evolving IoT ecosystem in India is likely to accelerate the IoT deployment leading to socio economic development.
As per recent estimates, IoT market in India stands at $5.6 million with 200 million connected units in 2016. This is expected to grow to $15 billion with 2.7 billion units by 2020. Globally, the number of IoT devices is estimated to have increased 31% year-over-year to 8.4 billion in 2017. It is projected that there will be 30 billion devices by 2020. The global market value of IoT is projected to reach $7.1 trillion by 2020.
Mr Prabhash Singh, Member , DoT, Ms EmanuelaLecchi, Head Public Policy – APAC, Govt and Regulatory Affairs, GSMA, Mr Rajiv Sinha DDG NT, DoT, Mr VikramRawal, Senior Policy Director, Govt and Regulatory Affairs, GSMA, and Dr Rajesh Sharma, DDG, DoT led the sessions.
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Ministry of Petroleum & Natural Gas
Demand of Domestic Petroleum Products
During April-January, 2020-21, Crude oil processing is 182.2 MMT i.e. 73% of total crude oil processing capacity .During 2020-21, the capacity utilisation of Indian refineries are lower due to lower demand on account of Covid-19 pandemic.
The policy initiatives taken by the Government to reduce import dependency and increase domestic production of oil and gas include: -
- Policy for Relaxations, Extensions and Clarifications under Production Sharing Contract  regime for early monetization of hydrocarbon discoveries
- Discovered Small Field Policy
- Hydrocarbon Exploration and Licensing Policy
- Policy for Extension of Production Sharing Contracts
- Policy for early monetization of Coal Bed Methane
- Setting up of National Data Repository
- Appraisal of Unappraised areas in Sedimentary Basins.
- Re-assessment of Hydrocarbon Resources.
- Policy framework to streamline the working of Production Sharing Contracts in Pre-NELP and NELP Blocks
- Policy to Promote and Incentivize Enhanced Recovery Methods for Oil and Gas
- Policy framework for exploration and exploitation of Unconventional Hydrocarbons under existing Production Sharing Contracts, Coal Bed Methane contracts and Nomination fields.
Further, the Government in February, 2019 approved major reforms in exploration and licensing policy to enhance exploration activities, attract domestic and foreign investment in unexplored/unallocated areas of sedimentary basins and accelerate domestic production of oil and gas from existing fields. The policy reforms inter alia aims to boost exploration activities with greater weightage to work programme, simplified fiscal and contractual terms, bidding of exploration blocks under Category II and III sedimentary basins without production or revenue sharing to Government, early monetization of discoveries by extending fiscal incentives, incentivizing and more functional freedom to National Oil Companies for collaboration for production enhancement methods in nomination fields.
The year wise details of the crude oil production in the country during the last three years is given below:
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2018-19
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35.7
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34.2
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32.2
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25.6
P = Provisional
Natural decline in all aging fields and increase in water-cut in major oil producing fields are the main reasons for decline in oil production.
This information was given by the Union Minister for Petroleum and Natural Gas Shri Dharmendra Pradhan in a written reply in the Lok Sabha today.
Prime Minister's Office
UN General Assembly adopts Resolution to establish a new Memorial Wall for fallen Peacekeepers, piloted by India
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has expressed happiness as UN General Assembly adopted Resolution to establish a new Memorial Wall for fallen Peacekeepers piloted by India.
The Prime Minister tweeted;
“Delighted that the Resolution to establish a new Memorial Wall for fallen Peacekeepers, piloted by India, has been adopted in the UN General Assembly. The Resolution received a record 190 co-sponsorships. Grateful for everyone's support.”
Ministry of Earth Sciences
Cyclone Nisarga to cross near Alibag Wednesday afternoon
NDRF begins awareness drive in coastal districts of Maharashtra
Mumbai | June 2, 2020 14.00 hrs
Indian Meteorological Department has said that the Deep Depression over Arabian Sea is very likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm this afternoon and further into a severe cyclonic storm later tonight. Cyclone Nisarga is likely to cross Alibag on June 3rd afternoon, with sustained wind speed of 100 -110 kmph.
The National Disaster Response Force  has deployed 10 teams at various places in Maharashtra. Anupam Srivastava, Commander, NDRF at Pune said 3 teams have been deployed in Mumbai, 2 each in Raigad and Palghar and 1 each in Thane, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg. NDRF teams have surveyed the region and have been conducting briefing for the people to explain the damage likely to be caused by the cyclone.
Indian Coast Guard ships, aircraft and on shore stations are continuously relaying warnings about impending adverse weather to merchant vessels and fishermen. Meanwhile fishing vessels have begun to return to the shore.
District authorities are surveying the villages and people living in kuchcha houses will be evacuated to safer places. In Mumbai, the municipal authorities have drawn up plans to deal with water logging following heavy rainfall. BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation  has kept its disaster management control room on high alert. Officials from all 24 wards in Mumbai have been asked to identify potentially hazardous and low lying settlements and evacuate people to nearby safer places.
As a precautionary measure, state authorities have decided to shift nearly 150 asymptomatic Covid patients from the make-shift set up in BKC area to a facility in Worli, which has a covered rooftop.
As per IMD bulletin of 11.30 a.m., Cyclone Nisarga lay as a depression 280 kms off Goa. Though the intensity of Nisarga is not likely to be as strong as Cyclone Amphan, which devastated coastal Odisha, West Bengal and Bangladesh, IMD has issued warning of heavy to very heavy rainfall and rough sea conditions. Coastal authorities in Gujarat, Maharashtra, Goa, Karnataka and Kerala are on alert to deal with the situation.
Yesterday, Union Home Minister Amit Shah held a high level meeting with officials of National Disaster Management Authority, NDRF, IMD and Indian Coast Guard on preparedness for dealing with the Cyclone brewing in the Arabian Sea. Later on Shri Shah also held a video-link meeting with Maharashtra CM Uddhav Thackeray and Gujarat CM Vijay Rupani.
Ministry of Defence
NDA pays homage to Late Col. B Santosh Babu, CO 16 Bihar – A Brave ex NDA"
Pune: 20 June,2020
Late Col B Santosh Babu, CO 16 Bihar, an Alumnus of 105 course, of National Defence Academy attained martyrdom in the line of duty in a clash with Chinese troops in Galwan Valley of Eastern Ladakh on the night of 15/16 Jun 20. His undaunted courage, leadership and commitment in an unprecedented scenario is the trademark of an ex-NDA officer.
His name was inscribed with full military honours on the sacred walls of Hut of Remembrance in golden letters adding him to the elite league of ‘ex-NDA Brave Hearts’. A wreath laying ceremony was organized wherein Commandant NDA, Lt Gen Asit Mistry, AVSM, SM, VSM laid a wreath on behalf of all officers and cadets of NDA and the ex- NDA fraternity.
Col Babu has lived upto the rich traditions of the Academy. Col Babu has also been an instructor at NDA from Jul 2010 to Dec 2011. He will be remembered for his selfless service, devotion to duty and resolute courage. He would continue to inspire future generations of NDA Cadets. The NDA fraternity offers heartfelt condolences to the bereaved family in this hour of grief.
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Prime Minister's Office
India-EU Leaders’ Meeting 
At the invitation of the President of the European Council, Mr. Charles Michel, Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi will participate in the meeting of the European Council on 08 May, 2021 as a special invitee. The India-EU Leaders' Meeting is hosted by Prime Minister of Portugal, Mr. António Costa. Portugal currently holds the Presidency of the Council of the European Union.
Prime Minister will participate in the meeting along with the Heads of State or Government of all the 27 EU Member States. The EU+27 have met in this format only once before, with the US President in March this year. The leaders will exchange views on the COVID-19 pandemic and healthcare cooperation; fostering sustainable and inclusive growth; strengthening the India-EU economic partnership as well as regional and global issues of mutual interest.
The India-EU Leaders’ Meeting is an unprecedented opportunity for discussion with all the leaders of the EU Member States. It is a significant political milestone and will further build on the momentum witnessed in the relationship since the 15th India-EU Summit in July 2020.
Prime Minister's Office
PM condoles the passing away of Justice A S Dave
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi has condoled the passing away of Justice A S Dave, former Judge as well as acting Chief Justice of the Gujarat HC.
"Anguished by the passing away of Justice AS Dave, former Judge as well as acting CJ of the Gujarat HC. He will be remembered for his contributions to the legal field. Condolences to his family and friends. Om Shanti", the Prime Minister said.